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AH20200

Academic Year 2020/2021

The Modern to the Contemporary (AH20200)

Subject:
Art History
College:
Arts & Humanities
School:
Art History & Cultural Policy
Level:
2 (Intermediate)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Dr Roisin Kennedy
Trimester:
Autumn
Mode of Delivery:
Blended
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

From Modern to Contemporary considers the modernist movement from 1914 to the emergence of post-modern and contemporary art practice in the 1960s and 1970s. Through consideration of key concepts, critical texts and artworks, the principle characteristics and goals of modernism and contemporary art are explored. These include the importance of innovation and experimentation, the emphasis on media and technique and a new stress on the personality of the artist in modernism and the importance of participation, institutional critique and the scrutiny of identity in post-modernism. Through lectures and discussion students will analyse key types of modern and contemporary practice such as conceptual art, performance and installation art. On completion of the course students will be able to analyse the major developments in art from modernism to the contemporary.

In Autumn 2020 this module will consist of twice-weekly face-to-face lectures, which will also be available to attend/review online, with further supportive content online. Please see the School's Teaching and Learning statement for 2020-1 for further details: https://www.ucd.ie/arthistory/newsandevents/schoolofarthistoryculturalpolicyteachinglearningresearchstatement2020-21

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

-- recognise and account for the key concepts and major manifestations of modern and contemporary art.
- identify and critically analyse canonical modern and post-modern artworks.
- be familiar with major critical texts pertaining to the development of modern art as a concept within visual art.
- relate modern and contemporary art to its wider social and philosophical contexts.


Indicative Module Content:


The Avant-Garde; Conceptual Art; Surrealism; Constructivism, Bauhaus.
American modernism: MoMA and the White Cube; Women artists; Other Modernisms; Installation Art

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

16
Seminar (or Webinar)

2
Field Trip/External Visits

2
Specified Learning Activities

40
Autonomous Student Learning

40
Total

100

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The course is taught primarily via lectures but small tasks and discussions will enable active participation in these sessions. Students will have the opportunity to look at works of art in the original on a gallery visit and to discuss ideas. Students will be strongly encouraged to visit the library in person, read books, visits galleries and museums, make use of recommended texts, and contribute in class, when feasible. Support material and recommended readings from lectures will be available on Brightspace and students are encouraged to keep a journal detailing the content of the lectures and related tasks and research.

It is incumbent on any undergraduate student who fails this module to contact the lecturer concerned to announce their attention to resit, and to obtain details of resit assignments. Any resit/ repeat registration/ fee issues should be dealt with by the Arts programme office.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Recommendations:

Art History majors should not take any Stage 2 or 3 Art History modules until they have completed their Stage 1 Art History requirements.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Pre-requisite:
AH10030 - Art & the Modern World, AH10040 - Tools of Art History, AH10050 - European Art 1, AH10060 - European Art 2, AH10120 - The Art of Renaissance, AH10130 - Ancient & Medieval World, AH10140 - The Baroque to Romanticism, AH10150 - The Modern World

Incompatibles:
AH10070 - Dublin: Its Museums

Additional Information:
Students intending to Major in Art History are required to have competed the CORE Stage 1 module, and at least one other Stage 1 Art History module before progression.


 

Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Attendance:
This pass/ fail grade will be decided on sufficient evidence of engagement with the module through face-to-face attendance/ online activity subject to Covid 19 restrictions.		 Throughout the Trimester n/a Pass/Fail Grade Scale No

10

 No
Class Test: The class exam will be based on material discussed in lectures and classes.
This may take the form of an online/ take home test in accordance with current Covid 19 restrictions		 Week 5 n/a Graded No

30

 No
Essay: End of semester essay - 2,000 words Week 12 n/a Graded No

60

 No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring Yes - 2 Hour
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students are given individual feedback on their end of term essay. Results of the class exam will be circulated individually.

Please contact the module co-ordinator Róisín Kennedy, roisin.kennedy@ucd.ie for a copy of the reading list.

Name Role
Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
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